A plain discourse, on the causes, symptoms, nature, and cure, of the prevailing epidemical disease, termed influenza. / By John Herdman.

  • Herdman, John, 1762?-1842.
Date:
1803
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Credit: A plain discourse, on the causes, symptoms, nature, and cure, of the prevailing epidemical disease, termed influenza. / By John Herdman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( § ) quent changes or alternations of tempera¬ ture that are moil powerful in producing' difeafe. ; f X f | -f* i - 7T J* It is this ftate of the atmofphere that produces colds, and fevers, and inflamma¬ tions, and rheumatifms, and many other difeafes: it is this ftate of the atmofphere that produces the Influenza itfelf. In Na¬ ture there exifts not a caufe fo frequent¬ ly productive of difeafe, as changes of tem¬ perature and atmofpherical influence. Thus it is that colds, and coughs, and hoarfenefles, and fore throats, and inflam¬ mations, and fevers, as well as other dif¬ eafes, are fo frequent in the autumn and the fpring. In the autumn the temperature of the atmofphere is diminiftiad; in the fpring it is increafed : but in either cafe the living body fuifers very important and material changes ; it buffers derange* xnent, debility, and difeafe. *• '• - * ' m ) ' v. J : . ‘ * . y <i 1 . ] ], - j-. v , } These are faCts, and indifputable faCts ; they are facts with which every one is ac¬ quainted. Who has not remarked the - j • difeafes